Hajime Koshikawa

Sixth film in the series. A little boy who just wants to be a carpenter is at the center of a plot that might topple -- or save -- a mighty Clan,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Wandering samurai Nemuri Kyoshiro (Raizô Ichikawa) finds a bulls-eye on his back after befriending the shogunate's tightfisted financial...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

A decapitation at the hands of the shogun's monstrous misbegotten son kicks off the action and draws nomadic Nemuri Kyoshiro (Raizô Ichikawa)...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

In this first film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, adapted from the manga by Kazuo Koike, we are told the story of the Lone Wolf and Cub's origin....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

A fugitive christian "saint" (female, of course!) and a sadistic drug-addled princess both have their eye on Kyoshiro. The fact that a bunch of...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Early film directed by Kenji Misumi.

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Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Soft-Boiled Goro is a 1970 film directed by Kazuo Ikehiro

Genre: Action

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

1962 Japanese movie. Remake of Mori's 1942 original movie

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

The exciting story of Jirocho and his yakuza gang that controlled the area of the Tokaido during the latter days of the samurai era. Awesome...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Film adaption by Kenji Misumi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

1958 Japanese movie

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Taro Momoyama

A former soldier, reduced to working at a restaurant post-war, becomes a contract killer for the yakuza gangs he's in contact with.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Japan, 1643, as the Kato clan of Aizu falls from power two brave samurai will settle a dispute in the time-honored tradition of their clan, by...

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Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Jun'ichirō Narita

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Haruo Minami

During the reign of Hidetada, the second shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty, the advisor Okubo Hikozaemon (Ganjiro Nakamura) entrusts the young Takechiyo...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deaths years ago.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Abare inu is a 1965 action-comedy film directed by Kazuo Mori. It is the fourth film in the series.

Genre: Action

Cast: Jirō Tamiya

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Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiko Ono

Early film by Kenji Misumi.

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Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Zatoichi's trek through 88 temples to atone for his violent past is interrupted as he stumbles into a village terrorized by a violent yakuza boss.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Jun Fujimaki

In the book of the world's greatest rogues, the number one man can only be one person.

Genre: Action

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

A greedy developer, in league with a corrupt Shrine Magistrate, brutally tries to drive people out of a tenement building and destroy the shrine in...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Jun Fujimaki

Japan, 1159. Moritō, a brave samurai, performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Kesa during a violent uprising. Moritō falls in love with her,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

1946 Japanese movie

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Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

On the night of the summer Obon festival, Hagiwara Shinzaburo meets a beautiful courtesan named Otsuyu. Not knowing she's a ghost, he becomes...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Miyoko Akaza

The film portrays a satirical view of today's heartless money-oriented society.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

One of Japan's most popular stories is the tale of Kutsukake Tokijiro, a traveling gambler who finds that he must take care of the wife and child of...

Genre: History

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

A sequel to the popular "The School of Spies", this film continues the adventures of one of the graduates who is assigned to crack a powerful spy...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Last part of the Snake Woman trilogy.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Ryūzō Shimada

Ronin samurai Ibuki-san enters a town and sells his skills to the warring families. He falls in love with the beautiful horse stable owner but like...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Satoko is a mistress by trade or fate: when her master, the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan Temple in Kyoto, dies, she is given to the temple's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

As winds of change sweep Japan, an honest man joins the Shinsengumi out of admiration for its leader, and because he wants to live and die as a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Shigeru Amachi

Early film directed by Kenji Misumi.

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Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

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Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Set up to be the patsy by a rival gang, Furuta Makoto attacks the yakuza boss he thinks is responsible for his father’s murder. He then learns...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

The Fencing Master tells the story of a man trying to survive as the only world he knows is becoming increasingly irrelevant. Danpei Ichikawa lives...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ganjirō Nakamura II

An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years in search of spiritual enlightenment. Siddartha...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Yoso is truly a lost classic, set in the Nara Era (710-794), from Kinugasa Teinosuke the same writer/director who gave us the recognized classic Gate...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Fascinated with women from an early age, Yonosuke had his first sexual encounter at the age of seven. From that day on, he recklessly and forwardly...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Sentaro is been severely beaten for his defiance of the government and the high taxes during a time of famine. He is befriended by Kada Gentaro, a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

A master sculptor and his apprentice are trapped in a bad snow storm after finding a special tree for carving a statue for the local temple. Finding...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Shiho Fujimura

A coward boy fencer becomes invisible and matchless through a magic pill.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Osamu Sakai

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Machiko Kyō

The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur and master swordsman. Zatoichi targets a yakuza-controlled village, because war with a neighbouring...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Blind swordsman Zatoichi, jailed briefly, is implored by another prisoner to aid him in proving his innocence of a crime for which he is sentenced to...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

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Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Jida-geki by Santaro Marune.

Genre: History

Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Jirō Tamiya

Genre: Action

Cast: Jirō Tamiya

A 1961 film directed by Yoshiyuki Kuroda.

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

A film about young wandering Yakuza. Yukio Hashi's first film role.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Katsuhiko Kobayashi

1961 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

About 1786 the doings of a demented lord results in many masterless samurai, including Iyemon (Kei Sato) who is used to luxury and cannot adjust to...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Kazuko Inano

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Cast: Michiko Ono

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Cast: Hiroshi Inuzuka

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Cast: Hiroshi Inuzuka

Hikaru Genji, the haunted romantic hero of Lady Murasaki Shikibu’s “Genji Monogatari” (Tale of Genji) comes to life in this new...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa